@guessinggame: fuel being stored in large water basins. cooling necessary, but not that crucial. => "fairly safe".

発信者 jennico3/14/2011 2:30:46 AM

BBC is reporting Tepco says there were two explosions at #3.

発信者 guessinggame3/14/2011 2:31:00 AM

Oh no 2 reactors having big problems. Hope the seawater and boric acid solve the problem. Glad to hear others are doing better. Hope they can get the tsunamis to stop and get the diesel generators back up and running.

Can't the US send a few Super Carriers to the nuke plants, and use the ships Nuke power plants to power the cooling systems so they can cool the damn things off!???

発信者 JasonnWarren3/14/2011 2:42:18 AM

I'm not understanding the seawater process. If there is any leak to the floor or anywhere, what will prevent groundwater (thus birds, animals, runoff, plants, food) from being contaminated? In the air is the least of the problems if you ruin the ground, no? (I'm a meteorologist, not a nuclear physicist so unaware of much of what goes on ..)

発信者 Matt Powers3/14/2011 2:42:32 AM

NHK says there may be a possibility of a massive radioactive leak.

発信者 Dennis Meyers3/14/2011 2:42:41 AM

Edano: Just as with the first reactor, radiation levels have raised.

発信者 JBID3/14/2011 2:42:49 AM

We don't know if the damage is any worse than the Reactor 1 hydrogen explosion - it just looks worse. But it may have been that the R1 explosion was so powerful that it completely cleaned house, and this explosion was not quite as potent. Just speculation.

発信者 JBID3/14/2011 2:42:50 AM

I go away from Reuters to get some shopping coming back and all hell has broken loose at no.3 reactor ... i pray people there are ok.

発信者 Daily3/14/2011 2:42:57 AM

NHK says there may be a possibility of a massive radioactive leak.

発信者 Dennis Meyers3/14/2011 2:43:20 AM

Bearing in mind that this reactor is a MOX core and 2x more powerful. This is not good